As proof of us striving towards being better we have another major update coming, known as the TV Tie-in or Patch 1.020, and it’s coming out this month. It has further bug fixes, improvements, as well as new TV Tie-ins – one of which will utilize a new open world game mode called Sieges. Details are obviously slim, but it’s a crossover event so that should give you an indication of what this game mode entails in future DLCs.

Trion Worlds announced earlier this week that they have surpassed over 1 million registered accounts for their open-world shooter Defiance. 1 million is a huge number for any game, let alone an ambitious trans-media project like Defiance - merging the worlds of television and gaming.

So, what are 1 million Ark Hunters actually doing in Defiance? According to Trion Worlds, quite a bit!

Hellbugs, the nasty buggers that can turn even the most enjoyable Arkfall event into a bloody battle to the death, aren't doing so well. Players in Defiance have killed 500,000,000 hellbugs to date. This is roughly 16 million hellbugs being killed per day, based on the April 2nd launch date.

Defiance boasts a huge open world, and the most popular way to get around is in the ATV. That being said, players have driven 50,000,000 miles throughout the Bay area.

Working together is part of what makes Defiance awesome so it makes sense that 1,000,000 Arkfall events have been triggered since the game launched just one month ago. That is 33,000 Arkfall events per day! That's incredible.

If you're wondering what you're missing out on in Defiance, make sure you visit DefianceForum.com to catch up on the latest news from the video game and the SyFy original program.

Trion Worlds and Syfy have announced a contest to further merge the two worlds of Defiance! You already see Nolan and Irisa crossing from the game to the show, and now players have the chance to follow them over. A competition will be held in-game from April 30th - May 12th to see who deserves to see themselves in an upcoming episode of Defiance:

The ark hunter earning the most ark salvage per hour (excluding ark salvage earned from the Salvage Matrix) during their time played over the course of the contest will win. Only players who register for the contest and complete both “Most Wanted” pursuits will be eligible to win. All registrants must complete both the “Most Wanted: Competitor” and “Most Wanted: Rogue’s Gallery” in-game pursuits between 12:00am PDT April 30 and 11:59pm PDT May 12.

Both pursuits will be in-game in the “Goals” section of the GO menu starting at 12:00am PDT April 30. The “Rogue’s Gallery” pursuit tasks you with eliminating various mutants, raiders, 99ers, and more, while the “Competitor” pursuit pits you against other ark hunters in team-based PvP and Shadow War modes. The winner will have artists from the Defiance series render their character’s likeness into a special place in an upcoming episode.

Contest registration can be found at www.defiance.com/most-wanted, so don't miss out on your chance to become immortalized on Syfy. Future contests are promised to further connect the two media worlds -- stay tuned here and to the Defiance Forums for more information.

This massively mulltiplayer online shooter and television series go hand-in-hand in an unprecedented partnership featuring an interconnected world and crossing storylines! The Syfy series is in full swing, with viewers to follow the immersive drama each week as they adventure in the game. Check out this preview of next week's episode, to air Monday at 9/8c:

Need information to get off on the right foot in-game? The Defiance Wiki has a full knowledge base to fill your noggin with, and our Defiance Hubcombined with the Defiance Forums will keep you up to date with news and community banter. Stick with us, Ark Hunters -- we're in it for the long haul.

Have you been playing and following along? Let us know what you think in the comments below!

Defiance made some major waves last week when the series premiere made its debut on SyFy Channel. The network announced that Defiance was their most successful launch since 2006, when their original show Eureka debuted on the channel.

So, what's in store for episode 2?

We've got everything you need to know in our Defiance episode 2 preview. To start with, let's recap - briefly - where things left off. It goes without saying, but note that this post is going to be spoilertastic so stop reading now if you haven't watching episode 1 yet. (You can fix that by clicking here, by the way.)

Towards the end of the Defiance pilot episode, we witnessed the death of Luke McCawley - the son of Rafe McCawley, the leader of the McCawley family. Joshua Nolan began to investigate this murder and found out that it was perpetrated by none other than the mayoral assistant Ben Darus.

Unfortunately, Ben flees the city and kills the guards, dropping the stasis net that protects Defiance from outside threats.

Did you miss last night's big premiere of Defiance on SyFy Channel? If so, we've got you covered with a full episode recap and stream.

If you don't want anything spoiled for you, go ahead and skip down to the bottom of this post to watch the episode for yourself. The pilot episode clocks in at around an hour and a half, but we're not sure how long an average episode would be. For those of you curious how the episode was, we humbly present to you our episode 1 recap below.

We've known from the outset that Defiance is an ambitious project. Creating a world that will support both a video game environment and a full sci-fi program? If that's not ambitious, we don't know what is. This pilot episode serves to introduce us to all of the characters that we will come to know throughout this first season of Defiance, but it does more than that. It also introduces us to the world of Defiance in a brand new way.

We've been spending time with the Trion Worlds game and while that experience has given us a great idea of the world that Defiance inhabits, it wasn't until watching the show that we truly got it. The characters, the world and the environment came alive in a new way for us last night.

As you most likely know, Defiance is not only a great open-world shooter from Trion Worlds but also a full sci-fi program on SyFy channel.

The show is debuting tonight, so let's take a look at what you can expect from the series premiere. Episode 1 of Defiance airs tonight on SyFy Channel at 9:00PM, local time.

In case you're not familiar with the story in Defiance, this is what the show is about in a nutshell; set in the near future, a group of alien species collectively known as the Votans have arrived on Earth. Initially waging war against each other, the humans and Votans have now been forced to work together in the aftermath of the Arkfall event in 2030. The world as we know it has changed, the very surface of the Earth left altered.

So, episode 1. Here's what you can expect from tonights episode - without any spoilers, of course.

As much as that title looks like something a forum spammer would be posting, this is an honest to goodness guide on helping you cash in all of those Arkfall codes from Defiance that have been floating around out there.

Defiance has officially been released into the wild and videos are sprouting up all over YouTube, with fans sharing some of their tips, tricks and gameplays.

One such video producer is Qelric, a friend of ours and a partner with Curse's Union for Gamers, an awesome YouTube Partner program that offers the best CPM around and no lock-in deals that require you to produce content for one group for the rest of your life.

In her latest video, Qelric brings us some Defiance gameplay from the early stages of the game as she quests out as a Human Ark Hunter.

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With Defiance launching tomorrow in North America, or midnight tonight if you're impatient like us.

With this being the case, we thought it would be a great time to go back and recap just what it is that Trion Worlds and SyFy are hoping to create in Defiance.

Without further ado, here is what you can expect from Defiance - for now, we'll focus on the game.

Let's start at the beginning. Defiance is not just a video game. It's also a TV show from the talented minds at SyFy Channel. The two worlds interconnect in many ways, but are both also capable of standing on their own feet.

The Story

Not too far in the future, a group of aliens collectively known as the Votans arrived on Earth. The Votans were seeking a new home after their own star system was destroyed. Tensions mounted and things got out of hand, ultimately leading to the Votan-Human conflict known as the Pale Wars. The Pale Wars only ended when the Arkfall happened.

The Arkfall occurred when the entire Ark fleet in orbit simultaneously exploded, raining Arks down upon the Earth and unleashing the terraforming technology within in an utterly chaotic manner. Gone were the plans that the Votans had of using the technology sparingly and cautiously. Mountain ranges were raised, gaping chasms were ripped from the land and the planet was burned. Life as we knew it ended.